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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 22h

I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Worth noting that (Corporate) LGBT Pride London had 35,000 people on its march, whereas there were 150,000 in the (non-corporate) Trans Pride London. LGBT Pride only felt big because there were so many lorries and buses.

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Michael Armstrong @medialator.bsky.social · 22h

Will you be policing who is allowed to take part?

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Michael Armstrong @medialator.bsky.social · 22h

Perhaps you should rename this account "Motorcycling UK".

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Rev. Poppy Haze 𓅋 @poppyhaze.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing

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Michael Armstrong @medialator.bsky.social · 22h

Bristol cycling groups are boycotting this and organising a quite separate event because of this policy.

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Philippa York @pippayork.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Be prepared to have your DNA tested . CyclingUK you can feck off with your inclusivity.

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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The EHRC chair either does not understand the principle of rights, or has decided to gaslight trans individuals while stripping those rights. The EHCR code undermines, and, arguably in several ways, outright violates rights for trans individuals, including Articles 8, 11, and 14 of the ECHR. 1/

EHRC chair: Trans activists wrong to claim single-sex code limits rights

Guidance on single-sex spaces based on the Supreme Court judgment still protects transgender people, Mary-Ann Stephenson has said

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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

19000 offences in two weeks at just two locations. Lawbreaking by drivers is just endemic. Every one of those offences should be prosecuted. And buy lots more of those cameras. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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AI cameras spot nearly 19,000 road offences in West Midlands

Captured images include a front-seat passenger holding a small child on her lap without a seatbelt.

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

This would be economically illiterate & environmentally disastrous - and makes us less secure: undermining efforts to reduce energy bills by reducing dependence on gas, increasing vulnerability to global dictators, driving climate emissions & knee capping a market that’s just beginning to take off

theguardian.com

Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending

Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say

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Cllr Benali Hamdache @greenbenali.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Cutting heat pump subsidies to fund the military Digging for new oil and gas in the North Sea Labour’s greenward turn didn’t last long did it? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Ministers preparing to slash heat pump subsidies to fund defence spending

Exclusive: Some of £2bn savings needed from energy budget expected to come from boiler upgrade scheme, sources say

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John Munro @johnmunro.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

To anyone who gets around Birmingham without a car, this is in no way shocking and did not require AI to report something aleady so obvious.

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AI cameras spot nearly 19,000 road offences in West Midlands

Captured images include a front-seat passenger holding a small child on her lap without a seatbelt.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

So, finally, a PM who admits there **was** Russian interference in the Brexit Referendum — after all the evidence amassed by myself @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social Sergei Cristo, J Patrick et al — dismissed as conspiracy for ten long years Truth is the daughter of Time

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"Seamus O'Reilly" 🇺🇦🇬🇧🇮🇪🇦🇺🇬🇱 @jimbobuk.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

In the observer; Andy Burnham has said "UK authorities are “clear” that there was Russian interference in the Brexit vote: this is the first time a prime minister has confirmed Kremlin involvement in the 2016 referendum." Finally.... What we all knew...

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Michael Armstrong @medialator.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Just imagine if one of these unpaid people decided to include a security back door in their code. Meanwhile Microsoft....

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026

If you mean all those datacenters these bozos are building that are actually killing our environment, sure. Otherwise, I'd put the eugenicists who created "the study of existential risks" at the top of these lists 🙄 And this, my friends, is how eugenicists are laundered into the mainstream.

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Michael Armstrong @medialator.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Yet more idiotic censorship from the BBC, no doubt demanded by Robbie Gibb...

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In other words, it is the job of scientists to devise experiments that can test their claims, to always be cautious abt what they are claiming, and to critically evaluate the claims of other scientists. By these well-established standards, no serious science is happening behind Anthropic's claims.

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Michael Armstrong @medialator.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

When Zack stands down, @rachelmillward.bsky.social will be the obvious successor.

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Michael Armstrong @medialator.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

C4's accessibility person has just left, having got a new job elsewhere...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The winner of Nobel peace prize doing what the Government of the United Kingdom will not do: calling Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

This is clearly a good result for Labour, but it also doesn't strike me as a terrible result for the Greens. Vote share held up from the local elections in a constituency that was never really a target for them

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Weird Alex @jackalpants.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Reminder that "biological sex" is not a thing that exists. It is a legal fiction in every place that refers to it. In the UK, in the equality act, it means "the sex that was written on your original birth certificate." Incidentally, it doesn't matter if that's due to a clerical error.

theguardian.com

‘We were horrified’: parents heartbroken as baby girl registered as male

Parents told Nottinghamshire registrar’s error on birth certificate cannot be changed

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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

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Cool Bike Art @coolbikeart1.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

"Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime. Teach a man to cycle and he will realize fishing is stupid and boring." -Desmond Tutu, anti-apartheid and human rights activist #BicycleBirthday October 7 (1931 -2021)

Photo of a man wearing a tie standing astride a bicycle with one arm raised in the air.

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm sorry if this is obvious but the Tory proposal to exempt family homes completely from IHT will lead to 1] pensioners buying the biggest houses they possibly can 2] pensioners refusing to downsize which can only be bad news for younger families trying to buy family homes

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

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"“I fought to bring the software legitimacy so that it — and those building it — would be given its due respect, and thus I began to use the term ‘software engineering’ to distinguish it from hardware and other kinds of engineering, yet treat each type of engineering as part of the overall systems engineering process,” Hamilton told El Pais in 2018. “When I first started using this phrase, it was considered to be quite amusing. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. Software eventually and necessarily gained the same respect as any other discipline.”"

Source: https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007

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Jamie And Lion (aka, SpacedOutSmiles) @jamieandlion.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The publisher is getting desperate. The push back is working so they are left to do this sort of nonsense. When people vote with thier wallets good things than happen. We don’t have to fund people who’s views we find abhorrent

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Michael Armstrong @medialator.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yet you have decided to exclude some women. Improved safety should be for all women including trans women!

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Michael Armstrong @medialator.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Christians tell lies. Fox news is full of them. Religion is a danger to us all.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 07/10/2026

"Only the Green Party has the policies to address inequality, through taxes on wealth; tackle the cost of living crisis with rent controls and raising the minimum wage; and fight climate breakdown through a nationwide home insulation programme and turbocharging renewables" - @carladenyer.bsky.social

Conservatives: for billionaires, inequality, and environmental damage

Carla Denyer
MP for Bristol Central

“Today Kemi Badenoch once again defined the Conservative Party as pro-billionaires, pro-inequality and pro-damaging the environment.”

“However much money you throw at it, you cannot have national security without action on the climate crisis. You cannot make this country fairer while you continue to favour the super-wealthy over ordinary working people, and you will not help young people into work by removing worker protections and support.”

“Cutting inheritance tax, cutting welfare and reigniting a new round of austerity reminds us that this is a party working for the wealthy few, not the majority.”

Green Party
Promoted by Chris Williams on behalf of the Green Party of England and Wales, c/o PO Box Green Party, London SE1P 6YL

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Michael Armstrong @medialator.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Also, have you got time for a chat soon?

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Michael Armstrong @medialator.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think that if there is occasionally speech in a language different from the main language of the programme then it should be subtitled in the original language and not translated. 🤷

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Michael Armstrong @medialator.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Historically AI was always reliant on funding from the USA military. ai.stanford.edu/~nilsson/QAI...

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Michael Armstrong @medialator.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Why are you not posting about walking and cycling in the rain?

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Michael Armstrong @medialator.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Rush hour in Bristol. If only we could get rid of those cars to make more space for cycling... @edplowden.bsky.social @bristolgreenparty.bsky.social @ianwalker.bsky.social

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I invite anyone who believes this to read the work of Rosenblatt, Minsky, McCarthy, Papert, and countless others writing in the 1950s and 1960s.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 05/10/2026

Water companies failing their basic duties? The Green Party has a simple solution. Special administration. Public ownership. ZERO compensation for shareholders.

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Nancy Kelley @nancymk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This government has made life dramatically harder for trans children and their families. The human costs are enormous. Cal is not the first parent I know that has made the gut wrenching decision to leave the country. Read this then start fighting for a world where trans kids can live and thrive.

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Barbara Fantechi @barbarafantechi.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I would find it much more interesting to name all the women who won Nobel prizes for men. I can start with Franklin and Meitner, anyone wants to go on?

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